Beijing Games organisers will be hoping that competitors in the blue-riband event of athletics can dispel the sordid spectre of doping.
The new chief of US Track and Field has asked US President George Bush not to pardon or commute disgraced sprinter Marion Jones’s conviction.
Asafa Powell edges the 100m world record-holder in Stockholm as SA’s Juan van Deventer set his first South African record at the meet.
SA go into their fifth Olympic Games since sporting isolation with their medal hopes once again pinned on their swimmers and track and field athletes.
Athletics coach Trevor Graham has been banned for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency over doping.
South Africa’s medal tally rose to three on the penultimate day of the 12th World Junior Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
A bronze medal for Andre Olivier in the 800m and a new South African junior record in the 4x100m men’s relay at the junior championships in Poland.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius missed out in another attempt to qualify for the Olympics on Friday.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius came fourth in an able-bodied race on Wednesday, finishing outside the Olympic qualifying time.
Oscar Pistorius said on Wednesday that he does not believe he has a chance of qualifying to run with able-bodied athletes in the 400m at the Beijing Olympics.
Usain Bolt became the 17th holder of the 100m world record in New York last Saturday when he broke fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell’s previous world best.